Number Three is a story that just won't go away, as it was first published in 1999: How to Compile the Linux Kernel by James Andrews. Akkana Peck wrote a contemporary kernel-building howto a decade later that required three parts, which shows how much more complex the Linux kernel has become:

So what does this all mean? It means that maintaining online archives, and not playing silly change-the-URL games is very good thing to do. It is good for readers, authors, and publishers. So the next time some PHB wants to orphan your valuable archives, buy him a one-way ticket to a remote outpost, and don't let him come back.

Carla Schroder is the author of the Linux Cookbook and the Linux Networking Cookbook (O'Reilly Media), the upcoming "Book of Audacity" (NoStarch Press), a lifelong book lover, and the managing editor of LinuxPlanet and Linux Today.